Boston Robot Hackers is a community-driven organization dedicated to fostering innovation, learning, and collaboration in the field of robotics. We bring together enthusiasts, professionals, students, and makers who share a passion for building intelligent machines and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with robotics. (Request an invite to join us!)
Next Main Meeting: 12/11/2025 at 7:00pm | Next Hands-On Meeting: 12/18/2025 at 6:00pm
What's New
December 11 at 7:00pm
Featured Talk: Joel Grimm and Christopher Lai will introduce us to the Autonomous RACECAR at MIT's Beaver Works Summer Institute
December 11, 2025
November meeting update
This was our most attended meeting to date. Skyler gave a great presenetation about his work applying neural nets to a robot arm. The neural net was trained by watching videos he made of the arm working under remote control
November 15, 2025
Lightening Talks
Our monthly meetings will now include a section of lightning talks. Anyone can self-nominate for a talk. We have time for up to three of them each meeting. This is a really quick 5-10 minute talk presented by one of us. Topics are anything robot-related where you explain something you know, or know how to do, or show, so we all learn from each other.
November 03, 2025
Introducing Hands-On Meetings!
Hands-on meetings are coming, starting on Oct 23. The usual place and time. Some of us will bring some partial robots or other widgets from our workshops and if you acquire a robot or robot kit before and want help building it or debugging it, bring it along. It will be a two hour meeting, without an agenda!
September 24, 2025
Become a member! Get yourself on the website!
If you're not a member, it's easy to join! If you are, let's get you listed on our member directory! If you have a cool project, we would love to showcase you on our site.
September 09, 2025
Meetings
All meetings at Artisans Asylum, 96 Holton Street, Allston
🛠️ Projects (see all)
Current community initiatives
Access Ability Arm
Status: initial testing
iRobot Create-II
An iRobot Create-II (Roomba 960) controlled by a Raspberry PI and a Sick LASER scanner. Built with ROS2.
Status: initial testing
Dome ROBOT
A small simple differential drive robot built from scratch with no external help. Built with ROS2 and Linorobot2
Status: initial testing
ROYGBIV bot
Based on the Turtlebot2i, with custom 3d printed rainbow colored plates, 2 cameras, and a gripper.
Status: Needs update to ROS2
Trippy
A holonomic robot based on the Killough platform used for my Mechatronics BS degree from the U of Minnesota.
Status: Retired
